1986 was a great year to be a New Yorker. The Statue of Liberty was turning 100 years old and that Fourth of July was set to be the best eve...

I find that most of my childhood memories revolve around not only my toys, which I spent a great deal of time with, but they revolve around ...

When I started kindergarten, my lack of understanding the English language, and my status of only child made my socializing with the other c...

To say that many of my tastes were influenced by the tastes of my parents is to severely understate the obvious. I was a child raised by s...

I must have been somewhere between the ages of 3 and 4 the first time went to the Aqueduct Racetrack. It wasn't too far from the apartme...

As I have mentioned before, I was generally my mother's sidekick until I began school. My mom was never one to shirk responsibilities, a...

Before I was legitimately old enough to understand the true economic state of my family, I knew we were in no way rich. I knew by comparin...

[Preface: In previous posts I have alluded to an incident involving a set of Magnetic Batman and Robin figures. At times I come across as bi...

This is what I generally refer to as the  Saga of Decker . I obtained my Mego Decker action figure one chilly morning during one of my man...

When I was a child, my choices of after school TV viewing were pretty limited. Sure, you had GI Joe, Transformers, Voltron and Thundercats, ...

I started kindergarten at the ripe old age of 6. It was my first lone venture into the world. Okay, maybe not so lone. My mommy came along...

I was 4 yrs old when The Empire Strikes Back first hit the silver screen. At that time, my family lived in a small first floor apartment in ...